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| conor2 | Oct 27 2009, 08:03 AM Post #1 |
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If you could change you life would you ? i was amazed today by our lab lady who is happily married , 2 sons , who are both working , good jobs . BUT Jewels said if she had her time again , she wouldnt get married to he hubby .I was shocked. Jewels reason was she had to much to do and see in the world that she wouldnt have time to share her life ,unlessshe had a partner who thought the same ;Got me thinking . Who else would change the path that there life has taken them down ....and why ?? |
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| FOTW | Oct 27 2009, 03:49 PM Post #2 |
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I think we all would in some ways. Me - I just wish I had had the guts to leave home when I was a teenager to do the course I wanted to do and would hopefully now be working on an national trust estate somewhere in my wellies and my cagoule, and I would have had at least 2 more kids. D0h1z My mother has said on a few occasions that I should have been a farmers wife. rofl |
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| Laird willie h | Oct 27 2009, 06:10 PM Post #3 |
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I wouldn't change a thing . I've been so happy in life. I've also got a lovely wife and family . I regard myself very lucky . |
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| puffin | Oct 27 2009, 07:45 PM Post #4 |
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I'd like to have discovered Runrig sooner and especially started going to see them live long before we did! Would love to have been to at least one gig with Donnie - one of the Stirling Castle ones perhaps. But while I might say I'd change things, I have no doubt that (without knowing what I know now and having the experience lots of years behind me brings) I would make all the same mistakes and get all the same things wrong all over again. :( :A I would like to think that at age 11 I may have chosen to go to a less academically-inclined school and opted to take different subjects, but then again, environment and conservation weren't exactly to the fore back then and that's what I would really (with hindsight!) like to have been involved in.... I suspect the things I'd like to change would be the sort of things that would be out of my control just as they always were - money (or rather lack of it!), where we lived etc. One thing though - as a kid I was always embarrassed about my Dad's age (he was 25 years older than Mum and she was less than a month short of 37 when I was born) and I never wanted to know about his story (boring and ancient history to me then!). In recent years, when I have been trying to trace my family history from the old Census stuff etc. online, I really regret not having talked to my Dad about his life, especially the time when he was in the trenches in the First World War, which he survivied having been invalided out after being shot in the arm. I wish I had got him talking and recorded it all somehow, but he died when I was 17... Because his records (along with many thousands of others) were apparently destroyed by bombing in London during WW2 I have no way now of ever finding out anything. I would like to think I would change that. For all his faults (and he has to put up with all mine too so I reckon I've got by far the better deal!) I wouldn't change Mr Puffin for the world. :wub: But don't anyone dare tell him I said so! :P ;) :twist Edited by puffin, Oct 27 2009, 07:47 PM.
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| RC | Oct 27 2009, 10:07 PM Post #5 |
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When I was younger and just starting out on my career I was offered a three year contract to either Bermuda or the Falkland Islands. I was tempted but way too much of a wuss to go away out there on my own!! I was engaged to my first husband and both work placements needed single people, the marriage went ahead and lasted less than 2 years, so I reckon I made the wrong choice!!! Incidentally my first hubby and I are celebrating our Silver Wedding today!!! rofl I have no regrets about my choice of career, because I absolutely loved it, I just wish I hadn't had to leave on medical condition. I would have liked to have finished my contracted time. I would never change having my family, the lads are the most important things in my life and I love them to bits. I would liked to have been more adventurous in my lifetime and I would have loved to have travelled. I also wish that I put away some money when I came into a bit of a windfall instead of blowing it!! :A I would have preferred to wake up next to Johnny Depp every morning, but a girl can't have it all!!! :A |
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| anniebach | Oct 27 2009, 10:26 PM Post #6 |
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Yes I would've changed things....... I would've been less of a worry to my parents and made their lives easier I wouldn't have let my heart rule my head quite so much (especially where ny ex-husband was concerned :P ) but that's all :D |
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| tiz | Oct 27 2009, 10:47 PM Post #7 |
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luis
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why are my posts disappearing |
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| tiz | Oct 27 2009, 10:49 PM Post #8 |
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will try again. I would have moved to Scotland when we all wanted too. I would not have left Bristol Water. I love my family to bits and have made mistakes which I regret. |
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| CURIOSITY | Oct 30 2009, 08:29 AM Post #9 |
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muin
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You are human Tiz like the rest of us we never get everything just right. |
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| Laird willie h | Oct 30 2009, 04:46 PM Post #10 |
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Gael
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Except for me because I'm perfect . |
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| Buntáta | Nov 1 2009, 07:30 PM Post #11 |
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A bit of an existentialist comment but I believe, to a small degree, that we can make our own path in life. We are each responsible to do with our lives as we choose but society shapes us to some extent (ie: our job, whether chosen or not, our friends, our family etc) and prevents us from following our heart's desires. I'm not being to heavy am I :unsure |
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| firth | Nov 1 2009, 08:34 PM Post #12 |
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Not too heavy at all, spud! ;) While basically a believer in the old Scots saying 'What's for you won't go by you', I also agree with Spud that we can influence our own paths, and should use our skills, our minds and our abiities to do so, to make the best of what nature, nurture or fate lands us with. Even if life hasn't dealt us as great a hand as we might wish. (There's always people who are worse off, often really fighting to make the best of it - I really admire the.e) My main regret is that I didn't try to get a job back in the Highlands earlier, as it's very difficult now, but at the 'right' time for that there were other things going on with me that were - or seemed - more important. Also wish I'd started earlier on the Gaelic studies - my poor old brain might have had an easier time of it then! :twist |
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| colyates | Nov 1 2009, 09:00 PM Post #13 |
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wish i'd worked harder at school as the job for life in the shipyard we where all brought up to in believe wasn't :twist |
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